Ansible module to stop and start `ssh` service - ansible

Question

Question:
This scenario is used to explain the usage of modules in Ansible.
For this you have to stop and start a service named ssh.
Tasks to be done:- Write a task in main.yml file present in fresco_module\tasks folder.
The task is to stop and start the service named ssh using the service module in Ansible.
Note:
Run project install to install ansible.mainplaybook.yml file is provided to ansible-playbook.
Use the localhost for the inventory for ansible-playbook.
My Code:
- hosts: localhost
become: yes
tasks:
- name: Stop and Start ssh
service:
name: ssh
state: "{{ item }}"
with_items:
- stopped
- started
Output:
PLAY [localhost] *******************************************************************************
TASK [Gathering Facts] *************************************************************************
[DEPRECATION WARNING]: Distribution Ubuntu 16.04 on host localhost should use /usr/bin/python3,
but is using /usr/bin/python for backward compatibility with prior Ansible releases. A future
Ansible release will default to using the discovered platform python for this host. See
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/2.9/reference_appendices/interpreter_discovery.html for more
information. This feature will be removed in version 2.12. Deprecation warnings can be disabled
by setting deprecation_warnings=False in ansible.cfg.
ok: [localhost]
TASK [Stop and Start ssh] **********************************************************************
changed: [localhost] => (item=stopped)
ok: [localhost] => (item=started)
PLAY RECAP *************************************************************************************
localhost : ok=2 changed=1 unreachable=0 failed=0 skipped=0 rescued=0 ignored=0
Issue: The service is already running after Ansible stopped it, which looks like sshd was never stopped in the first place.
Command used to check the status: service ssh status. I used this command with state:stopped also but the sshd is still running. I have been facing this issue for so long. I tried with state:restarted also.

Answer 1

Hi Vivek and welcome to the community!
This should be an easy one. You can tell Ansible to restart the service directly without stopping and starting it in two separate steps.
The following code should work:
- hosts: localhost
become: yes
tasks:
- name: Stop and Start ssh
service:
name: ssh
state: restarted
This way Ansible ensures, that the ssh service was stopped an started - in short: restarted. You don't even need the with_items loop.

Answer 2

Ive tried the below and getting the same "sshd running " output , but the issue here i think is they want us to have both stop and start under one task. Also we are not allowed to use the restarted state :/
-
name: "Stop ssh"
service:
name: ssh
state: stopped
-
name: "start ssh"
service:
name: ssh
state: started

Answer 3

---
- hosts: localhost
connection: local
become: true
become_method: sudo
tasks:
- name: stop a service
service:
name: ssh
state: stopped
- name: start a service
service:
name: ssh
state: started
Add become-method sudo and task as stop and start the service.

Answer 4

Even i tried this problem with many other modules, like systemd, still i was not able to stop the service. But using command module, and passing 'sudo service ssh stop', i was able to stop the service. but still not passed the problem.
Even tried felix's answer before, still not able to pass.
And also if anybody can help me with "Ansible Choral | 5 | Ansible Roles problem"
would be great. even in that problem after getting 100% fs score not able to pass.

Answer 5

Just run the playbook for stopping starting ssh service without restart.
or use this
-
name: "Stop ssh"
service:
name: ssh
state: stopped
-
name: "start ssh"
service:
name: ssh
state: started
After running playbook successfully. Just stop the service by
sudo serivce ssh stop and then start the service sudo service ssh start.
then just submit the test. you will pass the handson

Answer 6

Just write below command in your main yaml file. This will first stop the ssh service and then start it again.
- name: Stop service ssh, if started
ansible.builtin.service:
name: ssh
state: stopped
- name: Start service ssh, if not started
ansible.builtin.service:
name: ssh
state: started

Answer 7

On AWS EC2 instances the ssh service is sshd.
- name: restart ssh daemon
hosts: all
remote_user: ec2-user
become: yes
become_method: sudo
tasks:
- name: Stop and Start ssh
service:
name: sshd
state: restarted
In the above YAML, replacing sshd with ssh will fail with "msg": "Could not find the requested service ssh